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Can quite sense Mr. K's frustration, and I do hope Arcadia can come out of the current problems & continue pioneering valks for fans. Bandai is getting really lazy.

I gotta agree that billing it as a 171 in fantasy or what-if M7 colors would be more palatable. I guess if I am getting this, I would pretend it to be so and lump it together with the Anniversary schemes in the shelf. Haha this is gold! I'm actually a bit meh on Yamato's 17 Battroid mode, perhaps too slim or scrawny in some areas, but I recognize they have done quite an effort to balance all modes in light of the heavy anime magic going on. At minimum, they acknowledge a key aspect of the 17 being a bulky boy. That said, I have your 17 pics saved to my phone for longest time, and I love how the angle plus black background of your shots effectively masks the shortcomings of Yamato's sculpt and giving it a full brute appearance.

Also, I believe these are from Hobby Japan (source: Stone Cheung).

Some new promo materials from Pose+ on the Legioss (Translated with Google Translate): In their original language:

Nice interview it is. I hope they will be able to release all they have planned and are planning.

Quite right, especially when we compare to: Exactly, they should have started from the 1/65 as base reference sculpt and improved from there. But I guess Bandai is going for minimal effort just swapping a few parts from the 171.

Great that Bandai is expanding on Macross 7. A skinny 17 in Battroid does look weird though, the feeling I get when first seeing this is akin to latest pics of Dwayne Johnson, as compared to say when he was in F&F. It has a lot of the DX 171 vibes all over.

Expanding the info from the link:

That's an interesting way to position the wings. 100%. It's a fresh way to interpret how a valk transforms, and the colors are so well integrated into its design.

Back when I first unboxed the 262Hs.. I like its rather compact Gerwalk mode.

When Mr. K mentioned no air-conditioning in the earlier tweet above, I guess it's not the only AC he's referring to.

^^ A very slick art of the 19P from this angle.

The Minmay figure is looking pretty good, and the face sculpt seems able to capture Mikimoto's modern drawings of her quite well.

Just a quick update - the figure is fine now. KC did confirm the pants can't be taken off without cutting or removing the stitches, but good news is after investigating the issue, it turns out that it's just the thigh socket having slipped out of the ball, & just needed to be popped back in with very firm pressure.

These are really awesome, and I never knew I needed a Dark Legioss + Tread combo until these pics.